Love not Fear: Living by the Four Agreements
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Corvus and I (right before we stopped commuting to work together because somebody started working from home…) had the opportunity to reread The Four Agreements. Every couple years or so, I pick it up again–usually when I feel that my metaphoric walls have gotten a little thin and the world is wearing me out more [...]
Tenemos una biblioteca!*
Sunday, August 26th, 2007What a weekend we’re having! We just got back from a matinée performance of Monty Python’s Spamalot, which we’ve wanted to see since we first heard about it years ago. It was very much worth the wait (and the ticket price!)–we had a great time. But even better than that, we achieved one of my [...]
Sneak Preview
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Today the heat and humidity in Philly finally broke. There was a fantastical thunderstorm that came just as swiftly as it went and, voila, suddenly you could breathe again. This morning was cool and sunny and breezy when I took Eliot out for his morning constitutional and it had that slightly crisp edge to it [...]
I’d Rather Be Reading Potter
Monday, August 13th, 2007Monday. Say no more, right? How about Monday with Harry Potter #7 sitting at home on your nightstand with only 70 pages between you and the dramatic conclusion? Clearly my Monday trumps yours. Having fully resisted the urge to give into the consumer frenzy that is Harry Potter #7 (due in large part to extreme [...]
Please Don’t Mind the Gap
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007A few months ago, I received an email from an old friend with whom I had lost contact. I wrote back immediately, and a month later, she wrote a second note. A couple of weeks later, I answered to her belated response with a quick, “I am thinking of you, and don’t want to let [...]
Four!
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007I’ve read four whole books this year! And three of them weren’t even about knitting! I know, it’s a pretty sad record, averaging two weeks per book, instead of the other way around. What can I say? The knitting, it has me. But Laurie King is doing her best to draw me back into the [...]
Not Reading, Knitting
Friday, January 26th, 2007Hi, sorry! Sorry! I know we’ve been terribly neglectful of this blog and you, our faithful readers. The good news is, we’ve tracked down the problem: it turns out that CountessZ and I have both undergone a renewed obsession with our other favorite pastime, knitting, and neither of us have read a darned thing lately””or [...]
Long Overdue Update From the Countess
Friday, December 1st, 2006While I may have dropped off the face of the blogosphere for the last few months, I haven’t stopped reading. So here I am with a few highlights. Some finished titles I really enjoyed: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert — this is the account of one woman’s spiritual journey through Italy, India and Indonesia. [...]
Back to Books
Thursday, November 16th, 2006The benefits of the post-election lull continue, as we are all now free to turn our attention to more entertaining topics. Like books, f’r’instance! With the abeyance of political stories, NPR makes for much more pleasant listening in the mornings. Today, I heard that M.T. Anderson, author of the first book reviewed here on the [...]
Bookish Vacation
Sunday, October 8th, 2006Sorry about the gap in posting, but I’ve been working a grueling 2-days-a-week schedule for nearly a month now; I’m sure you can imagine how fast that catches up to a person. Hee hee! Okay, first I was on vacation, then I went back to work for three days, then I went out on jury [...]
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